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Are you insecure at any speed?  So why not get your dose of tech news and reviews here with us and relax. Let the our dulcet tech tones wash over you with the bits of news that caught our attention this week.  Hear why you had better get yer AMD 6000 series while you can and about that new 50w Nvidia GPU, plus Fallout talk and our review of the Eazeye Radiant LCD Touchscreen Monitor.  More below.
00:00 Intro02:16 Food with Josh04:28 Ryzen 8000 CPUs launch - for business (with an LLM focus)07:17 NVIDIA launching two new RTX cards - but they are 50W workstation SKUs12:52 HighPoint has a 56GB/s SSD RAID card19:05 Lamptron gets caught using fraudulent AIDA64 keys20:33 Windows 11 on Intel 1122:56 High-end Radeon RX 6000 Series supplies are drying up26:08 (in)Security Corner39:35 Gaming Quick Hits47:00 Jeremy reviews the Eazeye Radiant - a transflective LCD display54:49 Picks of the Week1:04:54 Outro


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"We've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Processors effectively on fire with default motherboard settings. We watched chipsets glitter in the dark near the Copper Pipe. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."- JoshTEKK Smith
Also tune in for some Star Wars gaming news, PCIe 7 is the new Hotness, and Dump It like D-Link!  More in the timestamps beeeelooooow!
Timestamps:00:00 Intro00:53 Food with Josh03:04 The Intel 13th and 14th Gen Core i9 Problem Escalates15:26 Intel Gaudi 3 is an up to 900W AI chip20:46 AMD Ryzen 9000 processors mentioned in new chipset driver25:09 An APU faceoff at FPS Review32:16 The first draft of PCI Express 7 is here39:48 Roku has new tech to serve ads over HDMI43:58 The Pi 5 vs cheap Amazon mini PCs47:28 Security Corner1:00:01 Gaming Quick Hits1:06:53 Alienware AW3225QF 4K QD-OLED monitor review1:24:12 Jeremy has a new Drop keyboard1:26:56 Picks of the Week1:36:10 Outro


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We aren't too proud of this technological terror we've constructed, because the ability to record a podcast is insignificant compared to the power of the Schwartz.   Intel Foundry news, SSD pricing, a new RX 550?, TSMC is quaking, and a bevy of security scares!
Recorded April 3, 2024.
Timestamps:00:00 Intro01:09 Food with Josh02:59 Intel Foundry lost 7 billion USD last year12:03 TSMC assessing impact of recent earthquake18:35 Enterprise SSD prices on the rise - consumer will be next22:38 The biggest passively-cooled Gen5 SSD we've seen (and extended storage speed discussion)32:36 Microsoft splits Teams and Office apps worldwide37:24 A new low-profile RX 550 in 2024, or April Fool's joke?44:41 (in)Security Corner (featuring the XZ backdoor story)56:01 Gaming Quick Hits1:00:12 Kent reviews the Thermaltake CTE C700 TG case1:13:30 Picks of the Week1:32:21 Outro


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You didn't ask for it, but here it is. The greatest PC Perspective podcast ever recorded on March 27, 2024. China bans things, FSR 3.1, DirectSR, and EVGA PSU wiring ... Other topics below.
Oh, and sorry this is posted late this week!
Timestamps:00:00 Intro01:01 Food with Josh03:14 AMD announced FSR 3.1 at GDC08:10 Radeon 7900 GRE gets memory OC unlocked12:05 China bans AMD, Intel, and Windows from Government PCs17:24 ASUS launching NUC 14 Pro20:50 Microsoft DirectSR revealed25:23 EVGA PSU RMA fries HDDs, company makes it right29:09 TrueNAS Core bids goodbye to FreeBSD33:16 (in)Security Corner48:49 Gaming Quick Hits59:36 ECS LIVA Z5 PLUS review1:04:38 Picks of the Week1:14:43 Outro


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Another week, and another podcast. It seems like our destiny. In the words of Darth Vader, join us, and together we can rule the galaxy as ... distant cousins? I think that's what he said. Topics below include such morsels as Nvidia GTC (feel the power) and that delidded 14900KS cpus can come that way (feel the heat).
Recorded March 20, 2024.
Timestamps:00:00 Intro01:26 Food with Josh02:54 NVIDIA at GTC - new Blackwell GPU architecture14:19 Tiny Corp is apparently dumping AMD16:26 SK hynix shows of their first Gen5 SSD, the Platinum P5118:26 Intel and TSMC reportedly face delays in Arizona fab construction20:32 MAINGEAR will sell you a delidded 14900KS - with a warranty!29:10 Oh yeah, Intel officially launched the Core i9-14900KS just after our show last week30:17 (in)Security Corner40:25 Gaming Quick Hits44:55 Picks of the Week1:00:57 Outro


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This week we discuss AMD's new 144 Hz requirement for FreeSync certification, the "perfection" of 12GB RAM capacity, Corsair's K65 PLUS keyboard that's actually 75%, Epic gets expensive, mining with Ryzen and more topics (listed below).
Recorded March 13, 2024.
Timestamps:00:00 Intro02:08 Food with Josh04:54 Mining on Ryzen CPUs is a thing again09:22 Epic doesn't despise ALL fees, as long as they aren't from Apple13:34 DDR5 will soon be available in 12GB DIMMs16:29 Data miners provide mixed reports on NVIDIA Blackwell memory configs18:05 A new version of AIDA64 is here23:22 AMD stops certifying FreeSync displays under 144 Hz28:19 (in)Security Corner40:56 Gaming Quick Hits49:36 Corsair K65 PLUS keyboard review54:43 Fosi Audio LC30 switcher and VU meter review1:00:08 Picks of the Week1:09:57 Outro


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